The Bountiful Gal - Standing For Truth

 Somehow I got my weeks all messed up and I got ahead of myself.  Abree officially has completed 8 weeks at the Spero clinic and we are seeing fantastic results!!  She is wearing shoes everyday now without triggering pain and she can walk around for an hour without pain.   This is HUGE!!   She's still pretty tired each day after therapy but she's happy and excited about the improvements she's made.  Last week we introduced her to cold laser treatments in conjunction with her NMR and we really think that the 2 therapies together helped the most with being able to get her wearing shoes.  She had her ups and downs last week with it, which is to be expected.  We've notice that each week we introduce a new therapy she will have a little bit of a flare up the next day.  So last week she would have a good day, then a bad, then a good and then a bad and that's how the week went.  But by Sunday she was feeling really good again and been...

It's been a few weeks and I have lots to catch up on. Week 6 - Zac and I switched places so I'm back in Arkansas and he is back home with the rest of the family.  The week started with a little bit of a flare up. We aren't sure what caused it, but we spent a lot of time at home when we weren't in therapy trying to get it to calm back down.  We are definitely learning that NMR (neuromuscular reeducating) is the key with Abree.  She finds the most success at keeping a zero with this therapy. Mentally week 6 was hard on Abree.  She was discouraged about a flare up in pain but she also realized how much she misses everyone.  Spending all the extra time at home with no distractions was hard on her. She also find out this week all the food issues that she has and needs to cut out of her diet.  She's been dairy free most of her life so it didn't surprise us that was on the list.  We also weren't surprised about gluten as I know that is a pretty inflammatory f...